Rational social planning necessarily requires fixed abstract space-time representations
Evidence
If social life is to be rationally planned and controlled so as to promote social equality and the welfare of all, then how can production, consumption, and social interaction be planned and efficiently organized except through the incorporation of the ideal abstractions of space and time as given in the map, the chronometer, and the calendar? — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1609
Categorization
- QUESTION: The very tension Harvey frames as central dilemma: how to plan welfare without totalizing abstraction. Worth chasing in the chapter that follows.
- XREF: connects to: Commodification of land, not utopian design, universalized abstract space — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1614; Coordinate behavior emerges from conventions and impromptu codes without explicit plans — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 206; Shifts in spatial and temporal representation drive shifts in social relations — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1584 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Shifts in spatial and temporal representation drive shifts in social relations
#expands(0.85) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1584 - Commodification of land, not utopian design, universalized abstract space
#corroborates(0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1614 - Coordinate behavior emerges from conventions and impromptu codes without explicit plans
#complicates(0.75) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 206